City Council Passes Bill Requiring Charter School Data To Be Made Public

Erin Durkin at the Daily News:

The city will be required to publish reports that reveal the demographic mix and academic records of every charter school sharing space with a district school under a bill the City Council passed Wednesday.

Officials will have to list the number of kids who get free lunch, the proportion of special ed kids and students who are learning English, the racial breakdown and test scores at the charters compared with the traditional public schools that host them.

Durkin writes that charter advocates "welcome" the bill.

We'll see how they feel after a couple of years of the information being made public.